Chumley Chumley:
If this goes through, we will never have another minority government by any party that wont be overthrown by the losers ganging up on the winner.
Survivor politics. Voted off the island because you don't have the majority government immunity idol.
You still need a willing coalition of enough seats.
http://www.thestar.com/Canada/Columnist/article/547510$1:
Even before the presentation of Martin's Speech from the Throne, Harper had sought out his two opposition rivals to lay the groundwork of an alliance to unseat the Liberals. He would not have entered a formal coalition, but he was willing to advance key priorities of his opposition partners (starting with Gilles Duceppe) in exchange for their support for a Conservative government.
But while the Bloc Québécois was game, even back then, to enter a mutually satisfactory arrangement with an eventual government, the NDP was not.
That changed six months later when Jack Layton co-wrote a budget with Martin. Although the Bloc did not support the Liberal-NDP 2005 initiative, its decision was rooted in its desire to campaign for re-election against the backdrop of the sponsorship scandal rather than in the substance of the joint budget.
Harper tried it before but no dice because he couldn't swing it.
Had he engineered it back then he would have been fully supported and lauded as a political genius for united the parties against the hated Liberals.
Virtually all the people attacking the coalition would have been steadfastly for it when the Liberals would have been on the losing end.
Junior Member 
